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TIL that if you play dead in order to kill or capture an enemy in a war scenario, you are committing a war crime according to the Geneva Convention!

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yQ5Ve TIL Clement Wragge, an Australian forecaster, was the first to give actual names to tropical storms and hurricanes . When the Australian government refused to acknowledge his system, he started naming the hurricanes after the the politicians he disliked or those that wouldn’t support him.
m1PLP TIL that the recently built 5 billion dollar SoFI Stadium in Inglewood, CA. has no air conditioning, it instead relies on the sea breeze to cool the stadium down